Electron | Ready, Aim, PREFIRE (PREFIRE 1)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.
Ready, Aim, PREFIRE (PREFIRE 1)
First 6U Cubesat carrying a miniaturized IR spectrometer, covering 0- 45 μm at 0.84 μm spectral resolution, operating for one seasonal cycle for NASAs PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission.
Electron
Height 18.00 Meters
Max Stages 3
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 162 kN
Diameter 1.20 Meters
Mass To LEO 300 kg
Liftoff Mass 13 Tonnes
Launch Success 43
Consecutive Success 6
Maiden Flight 2017-05-25
Launch Failures 4
Updates
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-05-15T02:39:29+0000
Changed launch pad.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-05-09T01:27:41+0000
Updated launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-30T01:13:11+0000
NET May 22.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-03-30T06:16:13+0000
NET August.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-13T01:21:06+0000
Updated launch date.
hitura-nobad
2023-08-15T04:39:06+0000
Added launch
Related Events
NASA Prefire Pre-Launch Press Conference
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NASA is hosting a media call to discuss the agency’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission, which aims to improve life on Earth by studying heat loss from Earth’s polar regions and provide information on our changing climate. Participants include: - Karen St. Germain, director, Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters in Washington - Mary White, project manager, PREFIRE, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Southern California - Tristan L’Ecuyer, principal investigator, PREFIRE, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Peter Beck, CEO and founder, Rocket Lab
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